Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Tresors De Luxe July Guest Designer and my Last project.

Well the month of July has gone way to quickly. Summer is in full
swing in my neck of the woods. Barbeques, Family get togethers, Work and
play...And when it comes time to play, I do it well. I got to play with
the most gorgeous laces and flowers this month courtesy of Tresors de Luxe
products. From Scrapbook pages, to off the page projects, I loved
working with the laces. For my last project, I decided to use it for a
plain journal I bought in the dollar bin at Michaels. I wanted a wish
book, an idea book for scrapbooking.

I
covered the book with Prima's Engraver Line paper as a base for my
embellishing. I took the beautiful Tresors Lace and adhered it to the
binding edge of the book. This is the front.

I
added a few butterflies after inking them and finger painted them with
Rock Candy Stickles.The 2 corner pieces are from Blue Fern Studios as
well. They are the Symphony Corners in small. They are 4 to the pack. I heat embossed them in glossy black.

I covered the back of the book with the same gorgeous lace.

Here
is an image of the book the way it looks from the back open. The lace
is gorgeous, and makes my dollar find look like a million bucks!! I also
added some Prima trinkets to the edge of the spine. They are so sweet
and matched the cover perfectly. I hand sewed them on.

Here
is a closeup of the sweet butterflies. As a bonus, I created a file for
the butterflies you can find at the end of this post.

Every
book, needs a book mark. I love elegant book marks. In my personal
stash I found a Websters Pages Book Mark sash. I decided to use it for
the book mark. Here it is shown hanging on the outside of the book.

I took a portion of the lace and adhered it to the sash to match the outside design of the book.

Here is the book mark in action.

Here
is the file for the butterflies. I inked the ones on the book with soft
brown ink over the yellow parts and all around the butterfly.

I
hope you enjoyed this project as much as I enjoyed creating it. Thank
you Lucy Ohanyan and Cathi O'neill for inviting me to be Guest Designer
for the month of July. It was shear pleasure, and I will continue to use
Tresors de Luxe flowers and lace on future projects!!

Just gorgeous! I wanted to leave you a comment on the BoBunny post, but Blogger won't let me click on your comments link for some reason. Anyway....Congrats and I am so excited to design with you!!! It's going to be a great year!!!